Vellikizhamai Viratham

Vellikizhamai Viratham is a 1974 Indian Tamil-language devotional film, directed by R. Thyagarajan in his debut and produced by Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar under Dhandayudhapani Films. The film stars Sivakumar, Jayachitra and Jayasudha, along with Nagesh, Sundarrajan, Srikanth and Sasikumar as supporting actors. It was released on 12 April 1974. The film was remade in Telugu as Nomu (1974) and in Hindi as Shubh Din (1974).

Production
Vellikizhamai Viratham is the directorial debut of R. Thyagarajan. Kamal Haasan worked under K. Thangappan as his dance assistant. The film's story was written by Sandow Chinnappa Thevar inspired from the films The Shadow of the Cat and Cult of the Cobra who initially created a plot revolving around a child and snake since Thyagarajan wanted romance, a new plot was formed. Thyagarajan revealed sound overlapping system technology was used in the film. Thyagarajan initially wanted to film in black-and-white; however Chinnappa Thevar insisted him to film in colour. 15 cobras were bought specially for this film.

Soundtrack
Music was composed by Shankar–Ganesh and lyrics were written by A. Maruthakasi.

Release
Vellikizhamai Viratham was released on 12 April 1974. The film was a major success, and propelled Jayachitra to stardom.